This blog has been written by our CTO, Michael Christian.

Recently, I held a discussion about requirement gathering templates, with several digital workplace managers, and we talked about day-to-day intranet activities and discussed innovative ways to capture additional business requirements from their employee intranet users.
It is interesting to note that none of the intranet managers I interviewed have a background in business analysis. They previously worked in either IT, marketing, or communications roles. A tool we used often was the requirements gathering template.
What is a requirements gathering template?
Requirements gathering templates are a form of documentation that helps you get agreement among the team and supports information requests from other stakeholders.
The requirements gathering is an important part of the project management process. It is a time for all stakeholders to come together and agree on what needs to be done and how it will be executed.
The requirement gathering template – sometimes called requirement capture templates – can be about business requirements, user requirements, or workflow requirements.
Often business requirement templates are overly complicated and too high level.
We know how important it is to collect requirements. We also know that it can be a major headache.
It’s easy to forget to ask the right questions. That leads to delivering a product that doesn’t meet stakeholder or the customer needs.
To help you avoid this problem, we’ve created a simple requirements gathering template that you can use for your next project.
This template can be downloaded for free – no catch! Just let me know if you find it useful!

Updated June 2021.
I tried to open it but could not, I was expecting a MS Word document but it is in .XML and I do not know how to open the document.
Hi Joe,
Thank you for your comment. Please let me know if you’d like me to forward this to your email address or you can contact me at sales@claromentis.com to discuss your business requirements in details.
I can’t open this either – I was hoping for a Word document?
To Jennie and Joe…I saved the document to my desktop as a .doc file format and didn’t have any problems.
Very good document. Helped me a lot.
A very clean document. Thanks, and i am using this very tempalte
Opened without issue – at first glance, this has all the elements I was hoping for in one streamlined document.
Thank you!!